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 PROCLAMATIONS-APR. 7, 13, 1945 CHILD HEALTH DAY, 1945 April 7,1945 [No. 26471 36 U.S. C. i 143. Designation of May 1 1945, as Child Health Day. April 13, 1946 (No. 2648] Death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the health and vigor of the Nation's citizens are not only essentials in the achievement of peace but also goals for the fullest enjoyment and perpetuation of peace; and WHEREAS it has been demonstrated that many physical defects which handicap large numbers of adult citizens are evident during childhood, and could be prevented or corrected with proper care at that time; and WHEREAS good community planning for the health and care of our children starts with the registration at birth of all babies; and WHEREAS each year the births of tens of thousands of our babies are not officially registered; and WHEREAS the Congress by joint resolution of May 18, 1928 (45 Stat. 617) authorized and requested the President of the United States to issue annually a proclamation setting apart May 1 as Child Health Day: NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, Presi- dent of the United States of America, do hereby designate the first day of May of this year as Child Health Day. And I call upon the people in each community to use that day as an occasion to impress upon parents the importance of registering the birth of every baby born in the United States; and I further urge our citizens to mobilize community resources for the better care of our children so that the growing generation will be strong to mold the peace. IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington this 7 th day of April in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-five and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-ninth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: E. R. STETTINIUS, Jr. Secretary of State. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION To the People of the United States: It has pleased God in His infinite wisdom to take from us the im- mortal spirit of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States. The leader of his people in a great war, he lived to see the assurance of the victory but not to share it. He lived to see the first foundations of the free and peaceful world to which his life was dedicated, but not to enter on that world himself. His fellow countrymen will sorely miss his fortitude and faith and courage in the time to come. The peoples of the earth who love the ways of freedom and of hope will mourn for him. But though his voice is silent, his courage is not spent, his faith is [59 STAT. 864

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